Revised Common Lectionary

Please note that two distinct lectionaries are provided on this page: the two-year Daily Lectionary from the Book of Common Worship and the three-year Revised Common Lectionary (RCL) for Sundays and festivals; be sure you select the appropriate one.

1First of all, then, I
urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and
thanksgivings be made for everyone, 2for kings and all who are in high
positions, so that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life
in all godliness and dignity. 3This is right and is acceptable in
the sight of God our Savior, 4who desires everyone to be saved
and to come to the knowledge of the truth. 5For there is one God; there is
also one mediator between God and humankind, Christ
Jesus, himself human, 6who gave himself a ransom for all
this was attested at the right time. 7For this I was appointed a herald
and an apostle (I am telling the truth, I am not lying),
a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

Gospel Matthew 6:25-33

25"Therefore I
tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat
or what you will drink, or about your body, what you will
wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than
clothing? 26Look at the
birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather
into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are
you not of more value than they? 27And can any of you by worrying
add a single hour to your span of life? 28And why do you worry about
clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they
grow; they neither toil nor spin, 29yet I tell you, even Solomon in
all his glory was not clothed like one of these.
30But if God so clothes
the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow
is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you
— you of little faith? 31Therefore do not worry, saying,
'What will we eat?' or 'What will we
drink?' or 'What will we wear?' 32For it is the Gentiles who strive
for all these things; and indeed your heavenly Father
knows that you need all these things. 33But strive first for the kingdom
of God and his righteousness, and all these things will
be given to you as well."